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Andrew Haigh

English Director

Born: Mar 7, 1973

Films Gay Me People Think You

Related authors: Alfred Hitchcock Beeban Kidron Danny Boyle Edgar Wright Nigel Lythgoe Roger Deakins Sam Taylor-Johnson Stacey Dooley

We can all understand that feeling of being alone in the world trying to find ways to not be alone. Andrew Haigh

Alone World Feeling Ways Find Understand Trying Being Being Alone

It fails everybody, pretty much, the American Dream, but people are driven by it. I don't think we're driven by the same sense of hope in Europe. We're driven by pessimism more. Andrew Haigh

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My straight friends accept I'm gay but they forget that some people don't. Even now, if I go into a party, people don't usually assume I'm gay, so you have to keep coming out. And if you say you've got a film with a gay subject matter, you can sometimes see people's eyes going, 'Oh! OK!' Andrew Haigh

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You can achieve one thing, but because of that, you have to adapt or lose something else. If you end up in a relationship, you sometimes have to lose the closeness of your friendships, for example, or you have to move away somewhere... For me, that creates the sense of melancholy which I think exists in most people's lives. Andrew Haigh

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In stories, those are the moments that hit me the most: when people really don't expect it, don't have it much in their lives, and suddenly, an act of kindness. It's like, 'Oh, God! Heartbreaking!' Andrew Haigh

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The longer you get in a relationship, the harder it becomes to confront problems. Andrew Haigh

Relationship You Problems Longer Becomes Get Confront Harder

I haven't got muscles, and I don't live in West Hollywood. Andrew Haigh

Live Got West Hollywood Muscles

As a person, I am totally obsessed with the choices and decisions we make in our lives and how they dictate the course of our lives. Seemingly random choices that we make end up defining everything. Andrew Haigh

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No relationships are perfect. When they develop, there are things that have happened before in your life that you maybe don't discuss. And there are always fault lines within every relationship. I believe it doesn't take too much pressure to be placed on those fault lines for them to start cracking apart. Andrew Haigh

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In the end, with all of my films, I want to understand the continuity between these films and understand what they're trying to do. Andrew Haigh

Films Between Understand Continuity End Trying Want In The End

Homophobia obviously still exists, but it is a lot more subtle, and it is a lot more in the background. Andrew Haigh

Background More Obviously Still Lot Exists Subtle

I always think that there's a weight of prejudice from the past that gay people perhaps carry around with them. Even if it doesn't exist so much around them, they still have a feeling of being excluded, and perceived prejudice is almost as unsettling as actual prejudice. Andrew Haigh

People like a bit of honesty in films. Andrew Haigh

Honesty People Films Bit Like

It's very important that all the supporting characters feel like they've existed in the world, that they've had a history, and they'll go on to have a history within the scope of the story rather than just popping up and then disappearing. Andrew Haigh

'Call Me by Your Name' is essentially the universal nature of love. Andrew Haigh

Love Nature Me Name Call Essentially Your Universal

I think people have this idea that I just lived in my place in England and never left. During 'Looking,' I was in America for four years. I've got a green card. I spend half my time there. It doesn't feel like an alien world at all. Andrew Haigh

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We get older, and we get more wrinkles, but fundamentally, we stay the same... You have the same fears and doubts and concerns and dreams and passions and all those kinds of things, so I feel like you don't change as much as you think you do. Andrew Haigh

I think it's always interesting to me how we keep secrets from the ones we love the most. You could be so close to someone, but still there was something you can't express, you can't tell them, because it's almost too painful and too hard for you to articulate yourself, because you don't fully understand it. Andrew Haigh

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I think the gay community is made up of so many little different things, different parts, different people... I think that can be quite hard for people. You think you've found your tribe, but actually, that isn't your tribe, and then you have to keep searching for what kind of makes sense. Andrew Haigh

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People's lives often don't turn out as they expect. Andrew Haigh

People Out Expect Often Turn Lives

In the early stages of being out, you meet all these people from all kinds of backgrounds, and the one thing you have in common is you're all gay, but then you start to realise how different your experiences actually are. Andrew Haigh

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